Broadcast Date: Feb. 21, 1977
Tapping in to the growing interest in the supernatural, CBC Television airs Beyond Reason, a psychic take on the hugely successful CBC game show Front Page Challenge. The panellists include an astrologer, graphologist and a clairvoyant. Armed only with a birth chart, a handwriting sample and a personal possession, the psychic panel tries to guess the identity of the hidden guests.
The mystery visitor in this episode is an astronomer and an esteemed ufologist. He was the technical adviser on the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and is the world's leading expert on UFOs. Astrologer Geoff Gray-Cobb misses the mark when he presumes the guest likes to gamble and works in a food-related field. Psychic graphologist Marilyn Rossner doesn't fare much better.
She wrongly guesses that he composes music. But clairvoyant Irene Hughes hits the psychic bull's eye. Talking about "a terrible frightening feeling" emanating from the guest's watch and wallet, she correctly identifies the mystery guest as Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
FWIW, two years later, and host Allen Spraggett:
Police crackdown indicts 7 men, 12 teenagers on sex charges
WINNIPEG -- Twelve boys have been turned over to juvenile authorities February 20 in the wake of sex charges laid against 7 men. The men included Richard Malone, publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press, and Allen Spraggett, TV host and columnist. Information received by TBP indicates that Winnipeg police are involved in an extensive cover up of a juvenile organization which provided homosexual contacts for a number of wealthy and prominent Winnipeg citizens.
A five-month investigation by police began in the fall. In November Ed Oliverio, 32 arrested for gross indecency, buggery and contributing to juvenile delinquency. Oliverio is a public relations man, and former campaign manager for a Liberal MLA. Three other men appeared in court February 20. Henry Martin, 45, Joseph Savelsbergh, 47, and Thomas Breen, 51 were charged with several counts each of gross indecency and buggery. The same say Allen Spraggett, 46, co-host of the CBC programme "Beyond Reason," writer of the newspaper column "The Unexplained," and an astrologer for a Toronto radio station, was arrested by York Regional Police in his suburban Toronto home. He was later released on the promise to appear in Winnipeg court the following week.
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